The character of America's "unilateral internationalist" foreign policy in the 1920s, whereby the United States tried to increase its role in world affairs, especially economically, while avoiding commitments
The response of America to the growing world crises in the 1930s, particularly isolationism and legislated neutrality
The gradual road to American military involvement in WWII, leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
A thorough study of Chapter Twenty-five should enable the student to understand the following:
The new directions of American foreign policy—and the attempts to replace the League of Nations as a guarantor of global stability—in the 1920s
The effects of the Great Depression on foreign relations under both Hoover and Roosevelt
The patterns of Japanese, Italian, and German aggression that eventually led to World War II, and the response to each by the Roosevelt government
The factors that led to the passage of neutrality legislation in the 1930s, and Roosevelt's application of the legislation to various foreign crises
The growing pro-English sentiment in the United States after the onset of WWII, and its effect on American neutrality up until 1941
The specific sequence of events that brought the United States into the war, culminating with the attack on Pearl Harbor
The American role in the Sino-Japanese War that preceded and eventually became part of what is normally considered World War II
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